 Beautiful Mother's Day flowers in a Georgetown florist shop |
 A Martha Room in a spectacular shop in Georgetown |
 Wonderful french crockery! |
 The fabulous shop! |
 Look at those scrumptious begonias! |
 The first garden on the tour -- Don's favorite! |
 He liked the far end (not shown) with a pergola-covered patio with an elegant bar! |
 The view back to the house with Kathy! |
 Nice urn in a swirl shaped bed |
 The requisite water feature; very subdued and nice! |
 Roses trained across the back of the house |
 Annuals packed into the bed |
 Very nice cover for the air conditioner! |
 On the entry wall |
 This is the tiny, tiny alley entrance to the garden |
 Looking back towards the garden; LOVE the chandelier! |
 A house down the street! |
 The second garden -- a strange combination |
 Each individual piece was nice, but together they were jarring and not melodious |
 Strange bedfellows |
 Out front, however, a nice touch |
 The next garden held an unexpected grassy area!! |
 A nice little nook in the back |
 Nice size and placement for a water feature |
 and next to the water feature, a lovely cool patio area |
 Across the street this spectacular Chinese Lantern tree! |
 The next garden had -- to Don's delight -- the perfectly-sized lap pool! |
 In the back of the yard, a nice nearly wild area! |
 Beautiful deck and great placement of crape myrtle |
 Don enjoying the lawn area! |
 Wisteria on the house! |
 And wonderfully placed maple allows the sunlight to filter thru the beautiful leaves |
 Okay, the azalea is a little passed, but I liked the combination! |
 Down the street, a sign to save their dogs in case of a fire! |
 The reflection makes it difficult to see, but there were a dozen geraniums inside this porch trying to get out! |
 Interesting House! |
 The next garden was very, very nice -- my favorite |
 Relatively new, but very well executed with a really nice variety of plants |
 Great textures, forms, designed to co-habitate very well |
 The garden fit very well with the house |
 See how nothing overwhelms -- very pleasing! |
 Okay, this might not look like much to you, but I really like how they placed the sempervivens |
 And the alliums give a nice lightness to the composition |
 At the back of the garden, great view |
 We're tired and our feet hurt can we go home now? |
 Nearby, the most spectacular trumpet vine I believe I've ever seen! |
 LOVE the combination! |
 The next garden was being judged by some garden club. This mound of plants is wonderful to see! |
 By the flower mound, this wonderful orchid house! |
 Down the street, this great door (see the kitty?) |
 The next house with the garden up about 1/2 story above the street. NICE peonies! |
 Great use of fence to show off the garden |
 and around the corner, a pool!!!!!! |
 Considering how long these took to grow and the care needed to keep them healthy -- WOW! |
 Nice spot of color! |
 Big frog! |
 Sitting area by the guest house! |
 Very nice use of roses! |
 On the front of a house, a clematis. |
 The last house -- the most intriguing way I've ever seen to hold up peonies |
 Study of the peony support construction! |
 VERY nice use of a mirror! |
 The Kathy on the right is Kathy Jentz, Publisher/Editor of Washington Gardener |
 And look at the views!! |
 The C&O Canal -- first time I've seen this part with water in it! |
 a lock |
 Where they keep the mules who.... |
 ...pull these barges up and down the canal! |
 After a nice lunch!! |
 The next weekend, mom, Kathy, Barbara and I toured some gardens in Sandy Spring! |
 The first garden had some very new planting areas, and some more established |
 Kathy and mom enjoy the gardens; it was a little cool that morning! |
 Mom in the first garden |
 Very nice lilac! |
 Pretty trees -- the leaves were just golden in the sunshine |
 A large wigelia |
 Barbara and mom hiking up the driveway |
 The next garden had wonderful specimen trees |
 VERY nice dawn redwoods |
 The house is very well integrated into the landscaping |
 Piles of stones were used in the plantings |
 Great use of hostas |
 That's moss on top of a well cover! |
 Pillars off the back terrace |
 Nice use of rhododendrons in pots!! |
 VERY nicely grown rhododendrons |
 They used creeping charlie as a groundcover -- eek! |
 At the next garden; showing the deer fence and the winter damage to their cactus (which will recover) |
 GREAT fringe tree! |
 Kathy and Barbara enjoying the plants |
 This is a cozy garden with plants well grown under trees! |
 Mom enjoying the garden |
 Hostas and spiderwort |
 great hosta! |
 The garden was organized by colors and textures |
 with fascinating combinations |
 The combinations and 'rooms' are very pleasing to look at |
 And there were large stones placed around the garden |
 And it was enjoyable to look up at the treetops as well |
 The silver garden |
 Under the pergola out front |
 Very, very nice iris |
 The many specimen trees were very enjoyable |
 Giving the garden such great texture |
 Mom enjoying the garden near the fringe tree |
 A beech tree that is pink and purple! |
 At the next garden, a pond up near the house |
 This garden is at the end of a LONG gravel driveway! |
 The owner has a nursery also on the same grounds, so their personal yard has wonderful specimens |
 Mom stays up near the house while we strike out down the hill |
 See the fly? |
 what a maple! |
 Interesting use and placement of maples! |
 Kathy's gross thumb (car door) and poison ivy eruption |
 See mom back up at the house? |
 The monolith in the secret garden |
 Monkeypuzzle tree (I think) |
 Kathy with the 'Snowball Bush' viburnum |
 Barbara on the swing; the two photos of us on the swing didn't come out... |
 More specimens up near the house |
 Nice beds up near the house |
 THAT is an ancient wisteria which has been trained into a standard |
 A nicely trained tree |
 The final house was nestled in the woods and had this Japanese-style deer fence |
 The backyard was an amazing view of very straight trees and some vines |
 They had put several ponds around the house that frankly I wasn't too crazy about; they could have been more natural.... |
 Mom enjoying their rhododendrons; it was a VERY nice garden tour!1 |